East Africa: In search of national and regional renewal
Edited by Felicia Arudo Yieke
Published April 2005 ; 168 pages 2-86978-144-X
“This is an exciting book, which brilliantly brings out
disturbing social questions such as nationalism, ethnicity, the
role of intellectuals, language, the military, regional security
and the nature of political transitions in the East African
region. The authors of the various papers present dynamic and
convincing arguments on politics of identity, language and the
quest for Africa’s renewal.”
Professor Eric Masinde Aseka,
Kenyatta University, Kenya
“The papers in this volume confront some of the major problems
facing the peoples of East Africa, as indeed of the African
continent as a whole. Focusing in particular on the dilemmas of
ethnic and national identities and their relationship to social
and political conflict, these essays constitute a major
contribution to debates on supra-national co-operation and
socio-economic and political renewal in Africa.”
Professor Colin Herbert Creighton,
University of Hull, UK
East Africa: In Search of National and Regional Renewal
presents a stimulating mix of historical and
contemporary experiences at the heart of African nationalism and
pan-African aspirations. It offers rich, critical and insightful
scholarly readings of East African discourses, practices and
historiographies. While exploring the different dimensions of
the challenges of renewal confronting the countries in the
region, the authors take full cognisance of the changed
contexts, conditions and forces shaping Africa today. The result
is a lucid and highly accessible collection of empirically
grounded contributions by reputed scholars on issues such as:
African nationalism; intellectuals and Africa quest for renewal;
ethnicity and citizenship; movementocracy and democracy;
transient mobile ‘nations’ and nationhood; and the language
question. The book provides remarkable readings of the problems
confronting the East African region, and alternative approaches
to meeting the challenges of nationalism, regionalism and
promotion of pan-African ideals.
Felicia Arudo Yieke
currently teaches at Egerton University in the department of
Languages and Linguistics. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics
from University of Vienna, Austria and pursued her undergraduate
and Masters degree studies at Kenyatta University (Kenya) and
Moi University (Kenya) respectively.
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Introduction
Felicia Arudo Yieke |
1 |
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Chapter 1
The Rise, the Fall and the Insurrection of Nationalism in
Africa
Issa Shivji |
11 |
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Chapter 2
Intellectuals
and Africa's Renewal
Chachage Seithy L. Chachage |
27 |
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Chapter 3
Language and Regional Integration: Foreign or African
Languages
for the
African Union?
Sangai Mohochi |
41 |
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Chapter 4
Language and
the East African Parliament: National Identities,
Gender
Mainstreaming and the Re-invention of Regionalism
Felicia Arudo Yieke |
55 |
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Chapter 5
Ethnicity: An Opportunity or a Bane in Africa's Development?
Emmanuel Okoth Manyasa |
67 |
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Chapter 6
Ethno-Centralism and Movement Politics in Uganda:
New
Trends and Directions in Kibaale District Elections
Mohammed Kulumba |
80 |
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Chapter 7
Intellectuals and Soldiers: The Socialist Experiment in
the
Horn Africa
Bahru Zewde |
103 |
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Chapter 8
Transient, Mobile 'Nations' and the Dilemma of Nationhood in
the
Horn of
Africa: Interrogating Nomadic Pastoralists, Insecurity
and the
Uncertainty of Belonging
Maurice N. Amutabi |
117 |
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Chapter 9
Legal and
Political Dilemma in Transforming a Movement to
Multi-Party System in Uganda: Is the National Resistance
Movement
Riding
on a Tiger's Back?
Mohammed Kulumba |
134 |
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